Joe Biden famous quotes

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.
-- Joe Biden

#Believe #People #Body

It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts .
-- Joe Biden

#Fall #Cutting #Republican

No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.
-- Joe Biden

#Mean #Assessment #America

We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth and competition within the United States of America and compete internationally. I don't know anywhere where it's written that we have to be number two.
-- Joe Biden

#Two #Numbers #America

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time
-- Joe Biden

#Rights #Issues #Discrimination

The single biggest stimulus to the economy are the unemployment benefits we're paying. These people go out and they spend the money. They go out and they have to get by to everything from paying their mortgage or buying food or just getting by. It has a significant impact on economic growth and the continuation of economic growth.
-- Joe Biden

#Impact #People #Growth

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction - beyond that.
-- Joe Biden

#Men #Rights #Liberty

I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.
-- Joe Biden

#Strong #Careers #Guy

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights
-- Joe Biden

#Rights #Ordinary #Care

The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.
-- Joe Biden

#Opening Up #Fundamentals #Fuel

I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government,
-- Joe Biden

#Summer #Moving #Home

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.
-- Joe Biden

#Government #Roles #Venture

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.
-- Joe Biden

#Money #Powerful #Wealth

I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.
-- Joe Biden

#Matter #Judgment #Inappropriate

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!
-- Joe Biden

#Mother #Father #President

But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are not stupid. And the one thing they understand, they understand how incredibly mismanaged and bungled this war has been by the civilians in this administration. And - I mean, you can't paper over that, any more than you can paper over Katrina.
-- Joe Biden

#War #Stupid #Mean

How I Learned to Love the New World Order
-- Joe Biden

#Order #Creepy #World

You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.
-- Joe Biden

#Giving #President #Vices

This is a big f...ing deal!
-- Joe Biden

#Dumb #Bigs #Dumb Liberal

We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside,
-- Joe Biden

#Grieving #Justice #Care

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
-- Joe Biden

#Attitude #Lying #Government

Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.
-- Joe Biden

#Gun #Fire #Doors

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
-- Joe Biden

#Long #Community #Common

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
-- Joe Biden

#Dad #Men #Measure Of A Man

We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.
-- Joe Biden

#Boston #America #Overcoming

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.
-- Joe Biden

#Moving #Growth #Dunkin Donuts

I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.
-- Joe Biden

#Zionist #Jew

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable,
-- Joe Biden

#Giving Up #Life Is #Unforgivable

The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq.
-- Joe Biden

#Change #Jobs #Commitment

The president has a big stick.
-- Joe Biden

#President #Sticks #Election

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.
-- Joe Biden

#Republican

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
-- Joe Biden

#Views #Foreign Policy #Policy

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
-- Joe Biden

#September #September 11th #Stills

Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn't make you a man. It makes you a coward.
-- Joe Biden

#Girl #Powerful #Men

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.
-- Joe Biden

#Alive #Politics #Osama Bin Laden

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.
-- Joe Biden

#Nice #Mean #Men

If your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night before you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you need. You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It's a pretty hard experience. He'll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at.
-- Joe Biden

#Kids #Night #Worry

Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.
-- Joe Biden

#Athlete #Blow #College

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
-- Joe Biden

#Crazy #Eight #President

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.
-- Joe Biden

#Secret #Violence #Accepted

I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade.
-- Joe Biden

#Thinking #Climate Change

If we wait for the danger to become clear, it could be too late.
-- Joe Biden

#Wmd #Waiting #Too Late

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
-- Joe Biden

#Election #Authority #Polls

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
-- Joe Biden

#Thinking #Long #Respect Me

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
-- Joe Biden

#Issues #Giving #Three

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.
-- Joe Biden

#Party #Successful #Winning

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
-- Joe Biden

#Real #Cutting #Matter

I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.
-- Joe Biden

#Stupid #May #Not Stupid

To overcome this obstacle, and to discover and dismantle Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, UNMOVIC and the IAEA must interview relevant persons securely and with their families protected, even if they protest publicly against this treatment. Hans Blix may dislike running ''a defection agency,' but that could be the only way to obtain truthful information about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction
-- Joe Biden

#Running #Wmd #Agency

War should always be the absolute last resort.
-- Joe Biden

#War #Lasts #Should

We are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems,
-- Joe Biden

#Powerful #Warning

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run,
-- Joe Biden

#Running #Mean #Men

If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.
-- Joe Biden

#Hunting #Archery #Needs

There's no political point worth my son's life.
-- Joe Biden

#Son #Political #My Son

There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.
-- Joe Biden

#World #Reason #Should

And I think Hillary Clinton is able to be elected president of the United States.
-- Joe Biden

#Thinking #President #United States

Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
-- Joe Biden

#America #Expansion #Closure

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.
-- Joe Biden

#Wonder

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
-- Joe Biden

#Arrogance #Example #Nuclear

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
-- Joe Biden

#Fire #Our Society #Idealism

Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.
-- Joe Biden

#Running #Two #People

I was not an activist.
-- Joe Biden

#Activist

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
-- Joe Biden

#Hurt #Telling The Truth #Hurt Me

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
-- Joe Biden

#Men

America doesn't have health insurance.
-- Joe Biden

#America

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
-- Joe Biden

#Opportunity #Departure #Arafat

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
-- Joe Biden

#Thinking #Liberty #Achilles

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
-- Joe Biden

#Way #Persons

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
-- Joe Biden

#Mean #President #Vices

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
-- Joe Biden

#Country #Looks #Should

I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.
-- Joe Biden

#Ties #Shirts #Bigs

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
-- Joe Biden

#Believe #Want #I Believe

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.
-- Joe Biden

#Dry

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?
-- Joe Biden

#Father #Constitution #Talk To Me

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
-- Joe Biden

#Aunt #Hopeful #Middle East

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.
-- Joe Biden

#Insurance Companies #Company

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
-- Joe Biden

#Who I Am #Class #Guy

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.
-- Joe Biden

#Years #United States #I Have Learned

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?
-- Joe Biden

#Weapons #Als #Doe

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.
-- Joe Biden

#Party #Insightful #Republican

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.
-- Joe Biden

#Wall #Writing #Want